skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of software jobs are "bullshit jobs" - creating unnecessary or unused software (or particular features).
I don't get it. Denying the existence of qualia is surely convenient but hardly convincing. Saying its a hallucination just sides steps the problem. What is this hallucination you're experiencing? Why hallucinate anything at all when it is not a necessary component of functioning?

Why couldnt a hypothetical human like robot simply reply "I dont know what you mean by did that hurt, I simply know it could have damaged me so I know to avoid such scenarios"

To believe we are all p zombies youd have to believe that a table you punched experienced the same thing as punching me. That, either a table has all the same experiences that I feel, or that I unlike yourself that I feel nothing at all.

I am of the first opinion, that everything does experience some form of consciousness, and that we are a conglomeration of many individual pieces of it.
If a designer uses ‘unnecessary’ transparencies and animations just because a design tool makes those things easy, that is not a problem with the design tool.
Does it also run in the browser, so you can share type definitions and libraries and tools between client and server, and seamlessly perform isomorphic server side rendering?

If only there were a language that was as universally deployed and well supported and extremely optimized on both server AND client, and had all of the capabilities of PHP and many more...

Because today, using an anisomorphic language that can't run on both sides is like riding a bicycle with only one leg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_JavaScript

https://kit.svelte.dev/
I have nothing to add this was just so fascinating to read. Thanks for that!
It's Time to Tax the Billionaires
https://archive.is/fk6TE
Bash and Perl, where any number of punctuation marks in a row could plausibly mean something
Not possible for work due to NDAs, not desirable outside work for similar reasons. AI home appliances that aren’t cloud-based seem a long way off.
Most large sites you see are made "with Figma". Designers use Figma for mocks and hand it off to web developers to implement.
Radiolab and 99% Invisible have podcasts about this

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/

https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon
This has been done before, and it was free. It was called “Grouptones”

It was cool. Sadly it’s no longer up.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/grouptones-help-to-bring-...
Open-sourcing the code allows some level of assurance that your data is not being used for profit and that if the hosted version goes away, it can still be used as a self-hosted service.

In addition, it can allow the devs to accept contributions, making their job maintaining the program easier.
Take a hint from the title and ask ChatGPT?

It will give you a list of really obvious “why didn’t think of that” ways to get started.
I don’t think this is the full paper, though.
Also you can just name your arguments now
These are high-current (30-50A range) connectors though (for the wheelchair traction batteries). Getting the positioning correct so that the spring tension in the metal terminals creates a reliable/low-resistance/non-sparking connection is a shared contribution from the geometry of the metal terminal and the plastic housing (as opposed to most low current (0-5 Amp) electrical connections, where the connection geometry is most commonly provided by the metal geometry alone and the plastic's contribution is just keeping them "organized and close enough to mate").

Like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Powerpol...
> I didn't want to release the app without proper translations for the target countries.

Not a valid reason. No-one in my country cares whether an app is translated or not. In fact, I find it kind of patronizing that you feel the need to shelter us like that. I always set the language to English even if the app has first-class translations.

> I haven't yet implemented the feature to toggle off "local-only" artists.

That's a valid reason.
> Even though Python can call out to BLAS or whatever, it's still usually worth it to code in Fortran or C or maybe Julia.

I write in a mix of C++ and Python, and have also dabbled with tokamaks, and I think this is a (common) misunderstanding.

Fundamentally, you are optimizing the speed of project progress. Now, if you don't need your results in real time, e.g. because you are building a simulator which is not in a control loop for instance, you are often better at taking the easy language and ignoring the compute performance of the language. The compute performance of languages is a fixed multiplier, and with numerical code you might see things up to 10x.

But having readable code, which is easy to manipulate and change to test ideas, is speeding up the project progress by such a large factor, that it is hard to keep up with other languages. The reason python is omnipresent in machine learning, is not for a lack of trying of other languages. Python is just very good at allowing you to keep up with a fast-moving field.
I don't think anti-TS people are 'scared to learn something new'. I'm sure most of those people write TS on a daily basis, because it's an industry standard right now.
With enough investment, a pet project can become a mature platform.
I personally disable every key on my keyboard except the 1 and the 0 as soon as a get a machine.

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Regulations / taxes have an impact. The proliferation of SUVs has entire to do with regulation.

It's easier to meet emission standards for a "light truck" (actual category of a SUV) so car manufacturers are pumping out vehicles with a similar size / front grill angle / etc so that the vehicle is under that category. You might argue that people have a preference for SUVs over Sedans but also note how similar all the SUVs appear; the appearance is part of the light truck designation so even if consumer preference drove a larger car design, the regulation has driven its appearance.

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That said, I think an additional gas tax that rose annually with the proceeds rebated on your tax return is one of the easy + effective solutions I've heard about. Doesn't apply repressively because at the end of the year they get the higher costs rebated but at the time of sale pushes people to buy non-petroleum alternatives as it's cheaper. Probably easier to just rebated it equally amoungst tax filers as opposed to a rebate and industrial use is going to dwarf consumer use so you'll personally still end out ahead.
> Great explanation for the type of person to think the Gaza conflict started on October 7th 2023.

Sure, you could trace it all the way back to the Arab and Muslim colonization of Israel and Judea in 634, but the current war definitely started with Hamas' attack on Oct 7 2023, the most inexcusable, evil attack in the history of the region (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen... )
You'll be wanting JIRA Jungle (TM).
Weird to have a professional article start five sentences with "But..." in such a short article. I do sometimes too, but it's a bit grating when done so many times.
Are you sure it is not hallucinating? Most likely these models don't have an access to the Internet.

edit: typo
Interesting, I can't tell if the comic is about "people will become obsess and develop taste in what they see every day", or "people will develop preferences to separate themselves into groups".
Not true: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
I mean, that sounds like a form of code review, which is very standard in the industry. Is it the group aspect or recording a video that would have driven you away? I’m just a little confused.
Hmm, this is a great idea, I might get an old/ugly bike with good components myself, thanks!
Glue: The Dark Matter of Software (2021)
It's time to stop spending on useless shit.
Safari, Firefox, or IE? Note the text says:

> Should work on Desktop with Chrome or Edge.
Scroll down the page please and note the prior F-Droid release was Version 0.25.2 (994) - Added on Aug 10, 2023

All of the v26 releases are missing. F-Droid's maintainers just did not build or publish these, leaving F-Droid users with a broken app since early December 2023 until 2 weeks ago, basically 5 months of shipping an app that did not consistently work.
getting tired of the underhanded shilling for c and procedural style programming. the people doing this still pretend they are the underdogs but their point of view is over saturated.
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If the landlord is wanting something that benefits them and conveys that to the tenets then it’s reasonable for the tenant to communicate their concerns and what would help the landlord get what they want.
Are you member of the Pharma Mafia, or just pested with religious idiocy?
They are. Also responsible for anti-nuclear stance of clueless public. They do more harm overall than help.
> Why are you talking as if embedding server-side logic in HTML is necessary to experiment and iterate quickly?

Necessary? Not quite.

But having those things be closer together leading to faster iteration? I'd argue that that's definitely true, same as how someone could skip out on writing a bunch of enterprise programming patterns, MVC or even tests, as well as use a language with a dynamic type system, or even write serverless functions. Not that any of that is very maintainable long term, but at the same time nobody would expect that from something that's very much like a REPL.

It's the same as how I like to have a clearly separated front end (typically a SPA) and a back end API (something RESTful) in most cases so that those technologies wouldn't be coupled and the API could be re-used as necessary, except that people who go for the various SSR and templating approaches typically code around me in circles, because they don't have to write as much API client code as I do.
"Greenpeace Southeast Asia campaigner Wilhelmina Pelegrina said in a statement. Greenpeace joined MASIPAG, a farmers’ association, and other organizations and individuals in challenging the planting permit. “GM crops have never been proven safe,” Pelegrina asserted."

Well, you can't prove a negative.

I actually wonder how high the acceptance rate for this rice in Asia is. White rice is one of the foundations of their culture. And this rice is not white!
My point is that those solutions are impractical for any sort of widespread use.
I am covering this on my blog Encylopedia Autonomica.
Brazil also allows non-clean room reverse engineering (I still don't understand why we're not a rev-eng tech hub, come to Brazil my Ghidra/IDA users) and have much saner laws regarding piracy (like it being legal for 24h for testing), I've only ever seen big pirates (those who have piracy streaming websites) getting busted, I don't ever use a VPN and had no issues whatsoever with my piracy (have been a pirate for almost 20yrs now).
> One of the issues I have with "languages that don't suck anymore" is that, even after the language gets all the cool new features, you'll still end up having to use some libraries targeting old versions

Can you name any PHP libraries that don't support the latest version, that you wanted to use, and held you back from upgrading?
Because the implications are horrifying. If animals have consciousness then every cow, pig, and chicken farm is a mini Auschwitz.
At that point, you should argue for platform exclusivity being illegal anticompetitive behavior.
See: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status#... (I got there from Chromium's console).

On Linux, I had to go to chrome://flags/#skia-graphite and chrome://flags/#enable-vulkan and chrome://flags/#enable-unsafe-webgpu

I think only one of the first is actually required, but I enabled both. That allowed me to make use of TinyLlama with my AMD GPU (R9 Fury, OSS drivers), but I think I'd need Chromium Canary to enable "shader-f16" and use the other models, as I was not able to make it work on regular Chromium.

I haven't tried with Firefox.
It's no "CNC Song" or "Let's Study", but definitely improves on "Potato Pride"
Beethoven in Vienna [video]
I've managed to avoid ollama and just toyed with lmstudio. It's non-free software, but extremely easy to get into, uses llama.cpp under the hood, cross-platform, yada yada. There's https://jan.ai/docs as well, is AGPL3, and promises inference as well as training - doubtless many other similar offerings.

I'm wary of any 'web' prefix on what could / should otherwise be desktop applications, mostly due to doubts about browser security.
I have multiple friends who are doctors, and they will all tell you that 95% of their work is just trivial grudge work that almost anyone can do. Most cases that come to them are easily treatable and don't really require much of any expertise to diagnose or manage.

Nevertheless, doctors in many areas are in short supply and it's incredibly hard to become a doctor. Why? Because for the 5% of hard cases when you absolutely need an expert or else there are serious consequences, and it's very hard in advance to predict if someone's case is the 95% of trivial grudge work, or that 5% of critical work.

Software development is the same, the vast majority of the work is trivial grudge work and there's a lot of that grudge work, enough of it to keep millions of people employed. But there's still that 5% of the time when you need to be an expert, when you need to know data structures and algorithms and good architecture and have solid knowledge of your domain. The problem with software development is that most people just take that 95% for granted, get complacent and think that the 95% of trivial work is the job and that they don't need to be prepared for the remaining 5%.

My opinion, and that's all it is, is that in the future there won't be a need for that 95% of work, it will be automated and all that's left will be the remaining 5%. The people who became complacent and came to believe that their job is the 95% of trivial work will find themselves in a very difficult position.
I don't think Google uses K8s internally. Borg is still here though.
What note-taking app are you using currently, if any?
I've been using Silverbullet [1] for a while now and love it due to it's usage of plain-text markdown files in a normal directory structure to actually store the notes. Yet, it supports many other features such as query language and to a certain extent, federation with other SilverBullet instances. The only major downside for me is that whilst it's usable on mobile, it feels cramped.

[0]: https://silverbullet.md
The point is, you seem to be in the habit of making stuff up. In regard to specific events you allege to have happened.

And when someone challenges you to provide some kind substantiation for what you're saying, you change the subject.

Own it.
I prefer the following to make the rhyme less tenuous:

> You want some wages, Smaug-you-are? Your attitude won't take you far.
Pandabuy: Police raid '20 football stadiums' worth of alleged fake goods
Yes this is a great selling point for induction. You turn it to six, and hey presto in mere seconds it's HOT.
> This is the thing about nuclear: the promise of "cheap" power has been made since the 1960s, but very rarely delivered on, and it is not coming down yet, while everyone can see the massive cost collapse for renewables that has already happened and more reasonably project it into the future.

Part of this is because of how absolutely f-ed up research in fission has been over the decades.

There is this graph if you can find it showing how much money was estimated to be spent on R&D, vs how much was actually spent. Basically by the 1980s or 90s, if investments were made, nuclear would've been much cheaper today. There's a bunch of things more, but it's not that nuclear is inherently expensive more than the fact that you need to spend money first to save it.
The relevant metric is:

- cost per passenger, and

- number passengers passing per unit of time in airport.

Larger aircraft lose in cost per landing, and time slot length per landing, but when you count per passenger number they can do better.
Basically every significant app you interface with is designed with Figma at this point.

Figma itself has no opinion about the resulting UX. It's a tool for designers, and they can design great UX, horrible UX, and everything in between.

Your question is kind of like saying "I want to see a house built with a hammer, to see if a hammer makes nice looking houses".
Thank you. The replies to your post all seem variants of “you should’ve used X instead of Y”, but when you’re transpiling, you’re inviting a world of subtle bugs and edge cases. The added value, if it at all exists, is almost never worth the trouble, IMO.
I would rather get it right first time every time than get it wrong half the time and have my editor correct me.

Good languages don't make you memorize exceptions.
Why? There’s shorter ones.
Selling bookings on trips to space, when the vehicle isn’t built and tests have all failed.

Before you write “Starship” note that only a hollow shell got launched so far and failed to successfully re-enter. No life support, no emergency system, not fit or approved for manned space travel. It’s a fantasy at this point, not ready for bookings next year. That’s called a grift.

Dragon on Falcon, maybe, but no one is going to Mars anytime soon.
Logic to Randomness
It's getting very tiring to read this on every submission with a question mark in the title. The article is good.
They are such a disgrace… spreading fear and misinformation that does nothing to help the environment, and causing serious environmentalists that know what they are doing to have a difficult job, because they will also be branded as idiots.
>… TypeScript, the industry standard language for the web

This breaks my heart.
I'd usually be in favour of the various antics of Greenpeace, but this ruling strikes me as odd. There's very little safety testing of traditionally produced crops and there's typically no problem with producing new varieties of existing produce. I could understand it more if it was a push-back against varieties that are engineered to not produce seed so that farmers are continually having to purchase from the company.
Skew is open source, but no longer maintained: https://github.com/evanw/skew
Hiring neograds/unemployed people is also gaining a lot of traction because Italy’s become victim to an uncontrolled metamorphosis of universities into degree factories, generating an absurd number of people who end up unemployed until their late 30s, also polluting stats and making it look like there’s no way people with PhDs can find a decent job staying in the country. This has brought the government to create countless incentives to hire the unemployed graduates that are flooding the job market without success, making it very fiscally appealing to big corps who often prefer just hire to increase body counts rather than to bring in technical expertise.
Sony and Apollo express interest in buying Paramount in $26B deal
We had very different professors. 15 years ago I was writing C programs on paper and being graded on my syntax. In my first database class I lost 1pt on every question because I didn’t end my, otherwise perfect, queries with a “;”.

Both are just 1 of many examples of why I found college, for computer programming, to be nearly a complete waste of time. I’m not saying I didn’t learn anything but I learned way less than I did on my own and most of what they taught was horribly outdated and didn’t take into account how you’d actually be writing code in the real world.

It’s like the teachers that said “you won’t be walking around with a calculator in your pocket always”. That’s not me saying math isn’t important, it is, but it’s the same flawed argument that makes you memorize syntax as if your IDE won’t auto-complete the boilerplate for you or pretends you don’t have all of the internet at your fingerprints to look up things. It would have been much better for the professors to spend their time teaching how best to manage a project or take business requirements and turn them a spec or pseudo code. That’s a skill I actually use every day and it hasn’t changed much whereas the language I use and how I write code has changed quite a bit.
I think there may be a difference in kind here than with a lot of previous labor-saving abstractions.

To use an LLM, you still need to know the language you are using it to write. You don't need to know C or assembly as a Python/JS programmer today, but you do need to know JS to be an LLM-heavy JS programmer.
I agree with you, running a business used to be about providing products and services to fill your customer’s needs. Go to any place whose owner is also working there and you still feel that vibe. The satisfaction of a restaurant owner hearing that you enjoyed your meal or the proud gym owner who starts a conversation with every new face which happens to start attending for more than a few days and just wants to help.

Sadly these businesses are outliners now. Nowadays MBAs are hired as CEOs and then Boeing happens in nursing homes. They are in fact bad businesses but no one seems to care.

Returning to the article. The home owner didn’t care a little bit about having principles or trying to run a business that provides value to society. The argument was purely profit based. If there was a way to pre-file for eviction that was legal and costed 900 usd. They would have taken that instead of giving the 1k
Alien life is no joke
Reflective Paint Solves Lidar Detection Challenges for Self-Driving Cars
Shōgun: How special effects brought 17th-century feudal Japan to vivid life
Dangerous scammers don't even bother to hide their crimes
That's also (mostly) propaganda. Farmers are very busy without having to deal with the side business of inefficiently growing their seeds and would buy anyway.
If you want to spend a minute or two waiting before your server is back up after making any kind of change, Remix sounds about right.

My project is relatively tiny too. I’ve never regretted a choice more than Remix.
My son’s big landlord paid towing companies to scan the private parking lots of their properties to look for expired tags, presumably getting a split of the fees. Zero notice, btw. He noticed his car was gone and called the office and they told him. Luckily it was very soon after it was towed. What if it was a week later? Fees would have been in the thousands. In CA they can run into the hundreds before 24 hours has elapsed.

Big landlords can be better and worse. Worse ones can cause a lot of damage.
The nearest branch or ATM is 2+ hours driving. Desktop site doesn't do check deposits.
It's not actually the full paper; they cite the full paper with [4], as containing the proof of Theorem 1.